Envious Love - GumDog

chapter six - the ensnare

The trees shift around outside as Simion talks about another pointless thing that he could not care less about. But, Gumball could not stop thinking about so many things that have happened recently. The argument, the fight, HDG's recent disappearance from classes, what he had been doing to himself... he knows it is all bad. So, so, so very bad.

The tapping of other people's pencils and the chalk on the chalkboard made the room somewhat more comforting, even though he hated the teacher with a passion, the room was always comforting and special to him. So many things have happened in this room, and it made him happy. The browns, greys, and greens were comforting and gave him that "coffee shop" vibe, all though coffee is not even allowed at the school.

He takes a drink of his water, and puts it back into his bag. The rustling doing so made a couple heads turn, but not many. Then, he noticed Penny is not in the room at that moment. This makes him nervous. What if she was fighting with HDG? Every scenario comes up into his head, making him overly paranoid and anxious.

Then, another topic hits him. What if all the arguing and toxicity is why HDG is so depressed? This made him sort of upset. He ponders between different things, such as his break up with Penny, HDG, and many many other things until the bell rings, and which he goes out of the class and heads to Health. He was glad it was finally health time.

The health class was giant compared to what he thought. It was recently added onto the building, and it had a lot of desks in it. Most were not even filled. Coach goes on about different shit from the topic, being self worth and how to keep yourself healthy. He kind of wished he went yesterday just so he could still do the introduction and see what everyone had to say about himself, even though everyone has known each other since at least sixth grade, even earlier. That was the case with HDG and Gumball.

"Alright... go to page 21 in your textbooks and take notes..." Coach says, going back to her seat and going onto the computer. Gumball sighs, and gets the textbook out from under his desk and goes to the page he was instructed to go to. The textbook was crumbled and heavily damaged, well, that is probably because it's from the 90's but damn. The thing was damaged as hell. He goes to the page and starts taking notes on whatever he is supposed to take notes on, all though he did not care what so ever. The notes were just being written down, not really being thought about what so ever.

The bell rings as he finishes his notes, and he puts the beat up text book back under his desk. He puts his green composition notebook into his book bag, and swings it over his shoulders. Groups of students hurry out of the classroom, and Gumball checks his phone right before he leaves so he could wait for the crowd to die down a bit. A message from HDG... he opens up his phone, and sees what he had sent him.

HDG: can you meet me today? same place as yesterday?

Gumball immediately thinks HDG wants round two, which Gumball was not really all that prepared for, or he just wanted to apolgize. He worriedly starts going out of the classroom and down the hallways, which are packed to the brim. The students move along the halls to the lunchroom or to classes they had to go to for makeups for tests or quizzes. He goes out to the door besides the guidance office, and puts a rock in the door like the previous day.

He turns around the corner where he is, and he sees HDG standing up against the wall, his foot against it, scrolling through Elmore Plus on his phone. HDG notices him standing there, and puts his phone in his back pocket. The two stare at each other for a bit of time until Gumball approaches him, but then stops. Gumball goes to speak, but HDG cuts him off.

"I'm so sorry about yesterday. I shouldn't have yelled at you," he quietly says. Gumball looks at him, with a kind of sad puppy look to him. Gumball goes up to him quickly and hugs him, starting to cry a bit.